Beautiful to see them in flight.I also don't get why people think budgies are stupid. I had four or five over the course of my childhood and also found them to be quite intelligent. I always had a blue and white male though the last one had a yellow mask which looked pretty cool. He always rode around on my train set and starting bobbing his head up and down and babbling incoherently, he knew a lot of words but made a mess of it.
My father was one of the founders of a local bird lovers society and I always got the breeding rejects ie. a cheek-spot slightly off etc. They would never kill them but sell the lesser quality off as pets.
The beauty of it was that they were already used to human presence and I didn't have a hard time getting them tame though I honestly never had a problem raising my pets to be well...pets.
We used to own a red-tailed parrot, we had to give him to another member of the bird lovers because we didn't have enough spare time for him anymore, who sang horrible corny songs(hello mutha and hello fatha...argh!) and made a "gluck-gluck-gluck" sound the minute my mom or dad stepped near their bar. It was embarrassing to them as people started to think they were raging alcoholics or something.
